Also: for someone who volubly rails against capitalism, (sometimes I think these are all just WORDS to Lucas, with not just LITTLE understanding but NO understanding of the concepts at all) Lucas takes such obvious, childlike pride in the things he spends his money on.
"Look mommy, I bought an expensive board game! Look mommy! I bought some booze!"
This materialistic pleasure in consumption is of course beyond him, but it's interesting how compartmentalized his brain is.
He can have any contradictory ideas existing at once, because the overall governing principle of Lucas's mind is a hypocritical (to use another of his favorite overused terms he clearly doesn't understand) "Do as I say, not as I do."
That's all you need to know about him, literally. It explains everything, from these contradictions which are so obvious in everything he records now to something we all scratched our heads over in the past:
Remember his fury over "greybeards" using his "research" to get young women? That made no sense, right? Surely old men with girls was what he'd been preaching?
Yes it was, but only for him, and only as an excuse to try and eliminate what he saw as his competition. Younger, better looking, more socially comfortable men....he had to take them out of the equation.
So he latched onto this concept of telomeres, which his sick mind twisted into "young = bad, old = good" (because Lucas only understands dualities in their simplest form; in-group vs. out-group, good vs. bad, Democrat vs. Republican, etc.) to remove this group of sexually competitive males from the equation.
But it was only ever an EXCUSE to shower Lucas in teen pussy; it was never a maxim he wanted applicable to the world at large.
Of course, he has to ACT like it's a philosophy everyone should follow, but when he sees others he thinks are following it, what does he do? Congratulate them? No! He gets even more upset, because the telomere business is just an excuse to remove what he sees as his competition...and justify his lack of interest in women his own age, women I think he understands would be necessarily harder to manipulate.
That's kind of crucial: Lucas tries to be a puppet master; he thinks he's really smart and takes a laughable degree of pride in his transparent little axioms. But he's a moron, obviously, only trying to justify a pleasurable existence with the least effort for himself, so his machinations are childlike, obvious, and unsuccessful.
Still, if his BS was EVER to succeed on anyone, it would likely be on a younger, more vulnerable girl. Heck, Daniel thought Lucas was a suave lothario at the beginning, until familiarity revealed Lucas to be the lazy, perverse, dishonest, self-contradictory shambling mound he REALLY is. If a girl like Daniel (that is, mentally compromised somehow) met Lucas, his idiot bravado might hold sway long enough for him to do something to her that they'd BOTH likely ultimately regret. As others in the thread have said, some vulnerable street teen is the real worry where Lucas is concerned.
He certainly prowls regularly, doesn't he? He can call it "exercise" all he wants, but we know what he's really doing.
And now that he's reverted to his old "food for the homeless - as attraction sign" routine, my guess is something not so great will happen in the near future. I hope not.
